DataPoints

DataPoints is a periodic publication of the AOC Office of Court Research to inform the court community about empirical trends in the California judicial branch.

DataPoints: Procedural Fairness and Effective Court Practices in Small Claims CasesEven before the increase of self-represented litigants in family law and other civil cases, small claims court required litigants to assume the primary responsibility for preparing and presenting their cases. This issue of DataPoints is the first of four looking at the experience of small claims litigants. It reports descriptive information on small claims litigants: their levels of education, income, previous experience in court, and the types of cases in which they’re involved.